@Background Pony #4808
Maybe. I’d have to play around with effects and figure out how to do it myself first, though. It looks not too difficult, probably just a blurred colored translucent texture overlayed with some sparkles, but I’d have to throw things at a wall and see what sticks XD
@Eragor14
Yeah, it’s something you’d pretty much need to be a digital artist to understand. Not complicated and easy to figure out, but hard to explain and it’s the kind of thing you learn pretty early on when doing digital art so I didn’t think I really needed to go into it.
I’ll explain masking as best I can, though. Long story short, the mask tool allows you to apply a “mask”, so an outline, shape, etc, to another object so only the things inside the “mask” are visible. So if the field is the object, and the face is the mask, here’s the outcome:
So the idea is, is I use the image of Smolder as a mask for the crystal texture, so the crystal texture has the exact same shape as Smolder. Then I align the crystal shape directly above the image of Smolder and set it to 30% transparency so the image of Smolder beneath shows through and it creates the illusion of a crystal texture :D
It’s a really useful tool for digital art. I use it too, for things like the hands here so they fade out at the arms. I just applied a mask over the hands, and used the gradient fill effect on the mask so the visibility of the arms faded out:
I also use it for blushing, so the blurred edges of the blush (which is just an oval set to gaussian blur) doesn’t bleed over outside of the face. The green lines are the lines of the mask, and I just used the fill color as a mask since it already matches the shape of the face anyways :D
@PegaSUS
She’d not be amused I’m drawing a disproportionate amount of art of her lately, all of which is at her own expense XD
@Clever Clovers
Be like turning me into a gingerbread man XD
@Eragor14
I don’t regularly use GIMP, but I have used it on occasion when creating custom TF2 items. These seem like somewhat basic instructions to me and this won’t necessarily be very hard once you get the hang of GIMP, Krita, or whichever program you decide to use. If you still don’t understand what this image is referring to, I think that merely skimming through basic tutorials on these techniques may be enough.
@Eragor14
I’m not playing a game. Even if someone shows you exactly what to do it’s still gonna look like magic. But, the good news is you don’t have to understand it to use it. PS: you can do most of that with a single layer, but with the extra layers you can do seps. Which are also magic :) NGL, I’ve printed this out and hung it next to my art table, because it’s just so simple and freaking elegant.
Also, yeah, it’s an excellent show :) but some of these layer/masks tricks can seem a bit like a magic spell to change the color of an Apple. Not everyone finds it useful or fun. But, for me, throwing an adjustment layer onto a mask of some random photo of a plate of sauerkraut on an image gives it that “certain something” that can otherwise be missing.
@Eragor14
It’s a description of ways of combining layers in digital drawing tools so that one layer modifies others, and limiting the affects to “just the figure” and not the background. It’s the stuff you pick up if you use apps like SAI, Photoshop, Inkscape, etc. people use those apps forever without having to learn any of it. And some pick it up without knowing what they’re doing. Basically, it’s magic.
Except this time it was explained, along with everything you need to do it yourself.
PS: before digital tools, things like masks were done with red film and razor blades. And layers were different exposures with the magic coming from screens and gells and filters. Same basic activity, just different tools.
This stuff? Right here? This is the kind of magic that Frieren would fight Mimics for.
Maybe. I’d have to play around with effects and figure out how to do it myself first, though. It looks not too difficult, probably just a blurred colored translucent texture overlayed with some sparkles, but I’d have to throw things at a wall and see what sticks XD
your current filter.I do want to do more in the future, but truth be told there’s actually not a whole lot to actually talk about XD
:D
I don’t know if it would work on a phone. I’ve always done this on desktop :D
I reused a Smolder from another picture, since I’ve been on something of a Smolder-drawing kick lately XD
Ooh. I love seeing behind the scenes pictures like this. I wouldn’t mind if you did more of these in the future.
@Ciaran
@Ghostpikachu
@mjangelvortex
Glad it came in handy :D
Yeah, it’s something you’d pretty much need to be a digital artist to understand. Not complicated and easy to figure out, but hard to explain and it’s the kind of thing you learn pretty early on when doing digital art so I didn’t think I really needed to go into it.
your current filter.She’d not be amused I’m drawing a disproportionate amount of art of her lately, all of which is at her own expense XD
Be like turning me into a gingerbread man XD
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I don’t regularly use GIMP, but I have used it on occasion when creating custom TF2 items. These seem like somewhat basic instructions to me and this won’t necessarily be very hard once you get the hang of GIMP, Krita, or whichever program you decide to use. If you still don’t understand what this image is referring to, I think that merely skimming through basic tutorials on these techniques may be enough.
I’m not playing a game. Even if someone shows you exactly what to do it’s still gonna look like magic. But, the good news is you don’t have to understand it to use it. PS: you can do most of that with a single layer, but with the extra layers you can do seps. Which are also magic :) NGL, I’ve printed this out and hung it next to my art table, because it’s just so simple and freaking elegant.
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Still being vague with me, eh?
It’s a description of ways of combining layers in digital drawing tools so that one layer modifies others, and limiting the affects to “just the figure” and not the background. It’s the stuff you pick up if you use apps like SAI, Photoshop, Inkscape, etc. people use those apps forever without having to learn any of it. And some pick it up without knowing what they’re doing. Basically, it’s magic.
your current filter.Edited
You have the artist’s tag. Do you understand what this post is about?